Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927)
A MARVEL MOVIE—Nothing Else Describes It!
Genre : Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Runtime : 1H 9M
Director : Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Synopsis
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
Jan is a boy growing up in 1930s Siam in a wealthy, dysfunctional family where sex has a huge impact on everyone's lives. Jan is viewed by his father as cursed, since his mother died giving birth to him.
In the remote countryside of Ilongo, various women are sexually abused by local men. Two sisters meet Simon, the most attractive man in the village, and fight over him - one constantly haunted by Catholic dogma because of the abuse she suffered previously.
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